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Romania's Parliament cyber security was left red-faced after hackers broke into the data base and found the prime minister’s identity documents and private medical reports. Officials only discovered the cyber attack on the Chamber of Deputies  after hackers began boasting about it online and allegedly even tried to blackmail lawmakers, threatening to release personal details. Demanding a ransom, they went as...

A Dutch tourist has died after being caught in an avalanche, while four other skiers narrowly escaped. The events took place during a skiing expedition in the peaks of the Țarcu Mountains, accessible only by helicopter. The same helicopter would transport the victim to the hospital in Caransebeș. Rhe 44-year-old Dutch skier had set off with four other skiers on a...

Carpathia Bike Tour, the event organized by the Conservation Carpathia Foundation and the COBOR Biodiversity Farm, has opened registrations for its third edition. The event will take place on June 8. It invites cycling and nature enthusiasts to discover the biodiversity, history and culture of local communities in Colinele Transilvaniei (the Transylvanian Highlands). Over 100 cyclists participate in the Carpathia Bike Tour...

The beginning of 2024 is not the best we could have had. From the conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine and the geopolitical tensions in Asia, to social movements in some of the European countries including Germany, France and Romania and a huge dose of elections, it starts to be shaped as a year with a lot of uncertainty...

Christopher Crabbie, Britain’s ambassador to Romania at the end of last century, who allegedly persuaded Prime Minister Radu Vasile not to unleash the Army against coal miners who threatened to rampage through Bucharest has died. He was 77. He died from a brain tumor on November 15, 2023, the Times reported on Tuesday. In January 1999, Romanian coal miners marched on...

Rhe first Therapeutic Community Center in Romania officially authorized to provide services for treating addiction, Local Social Med Association, as opened in Târgu Mureş. Specialists with international experience will ensure individualized therapeutic programs for each patient seeking help for drug or alcohol use disorder. Beneficiaries will have access to accommodation at the center, as well as a complex rehabilitation process combining...

The Romanian Ministry of Environment said an association of companies won the contract to develop a forest monitoring system that uses satellite imagery to track cuttings in local forests. The contract has a value of over RON 37 million, VAT included. The winning offer was submitted by the association of Rartel SA (leader), Essensys Software, Terrasigna SRL, and e-GEOS S.p.A. “This...

Local authorities in Romania's north-western region of Maramureș are establishing a bison reservation, on the outskirts of Băiuț commune. In the first stage, the reservation will host five bison, with their number expected to increase over time. "Through this project, we will bring back the bison to our county, an animal that lived in the Maramureș forests until around the 1800s....

The chief negotiator for Moldova's Russian-backed separatist Transnistria says his team will no longer attend talks on the country's future in areas under government control because he feared arrest. Transnistria split from Moldova the year before the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and fought a brief war against Moldova. It lies in eastern Moldova and borders Ukraine. The two sides...

Romania has suspended its voluntary payments to the United Nations' Palestinian aid agency (UNRWA), the foreign ministry said on Monday. In doing so, it joined a series of countries pending a full investigation into accusations that its employees were involved in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. "We express our full confidence that the U.N. investigation will clarify the situation...